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As many travellers may know, people at US borders are subject to an altered set of laws due to the fact that… well, a border is a border. This includes "pseudo-borders" like airports that may be located well within US soil. The most obvious...

A new iPhone encryption case is making the headlines. Unlike many of the controversial ones to date, I think it can safely be said that in this case, the courts were right in compelling the suspect to unlock his smartphone. Up-Skirt Videos A voyeur –...

Reuters is reporting the unsurprising news that London, New York City, and San Francisco are seeing dramatic drops in smartphone thefts after the implementation of kill switches on devices became mandatory. The ability to encrypt the contents of these...

The Wall Street Journal reports on the Home Depot data breach. Among some of the revelations is that (a) they had actually upgraded to the latest security measures when the data breach was discovered and (b) executives were handed Apple devices to counteract...

When it comes to smartphone encryption , it seems that Apple's fingerprint-based TouchID unlocking feature is not so great (although most people seem to readily agree that the same, when it comes to mobile payments, is nothing short of miraculous...

The folks over at vice.com have commented on the latest smartphone security debacle – namely, the turning on of smartphone disk encryption by default – and the complaints from law enforcement over this decision. Befitting the nature of the site, vice...